AR_H_A 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bronze Age, Pithos, Hoplite
30 May 2016
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Style becomes more naturalistic, filled out, curvy, and detailed. By the 8th century greeks had started to colonize because of land pressure. Subject matter: ostridges, sphinxes, more lions (by people who know what lions actually look like) Technique - carving on new materials (ivory) Style - more natural looking: textures, details. The babylonian marriage market, edwin long 1875 o. This painting is from the victorian area: but tells the story of what greeks encountered as they colonized new lands and met new people o. Babylonians would get all their young girls together and lined up all their women from most beautiful to least and actions them off. o. Importance of oriental period: confrontation of greeks and non-greeks. Top is fitted with snarling griffins and sirens. On tripod stand: griffin protomes from olympia c. 675 bce. Greeks take this and emphasis the head of an eagle, body of lion, and ears of a horse.
